Laboratory earth : the planetary gamble we can't afford to lose / Stephen H. Schneider.
Laboratory earth : the planetary gamble we can't afford to lose / Stephen H. Schneider.
Laboratory earth : the planetary gamble we can't afford to lose / Stephen H. Schneider.
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New York : BasicBooks, c1997.
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N304.28/33
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English
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xvii, 174 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: It's a Matter of Scale -- 1. The Organic and Nonliving Earth: A Dynamic Cohesion -- 2. The Coevolution of Climate and Life -- 3. What Causes Climate Change? -- 4. Modeling Human-Induced Global Climate Change -- 5. Biodiversity and the Battle of the Birds -- 6. Integrated Assessments of...
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New York : BasicBooks, c1997.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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Schneider traces our climatic history not only from the beginning and up to the twentieth century, but deep into the twenty-first as well. He depicts the next one hundred years as a potentially perilous period for climate and life - unless we citizens of Earth first recognize and then work to control the unintended global scale experiment we are fo...
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Laboratory earth : the planetary gamble we can't afford to lose / Stephen H. Schneider.
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Science masters.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-169) and index.
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c1997.
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N304.28/33
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0465072798
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304.28
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